An incredible learning adventure. Fantastic fun for children and parents!
Step into an amazing 3D world, and lead The Scarecrow, The Cowardly Lion and The Tin Woodman on a magical quest to rescue Dorothy! Follow the Yellow Brick Road and you’ll discover wondrous lands packed full of exciting puzzles, games and activities!

What’s the quest?
You need to solve educational games to collect night magic jewels. If you succeed, you’ll be able to defeat the Wicked Witch, and rescue Dorothy!

How do I start playing?
Choose to play for the Bronze, Silver or Gold Order of Oz! Immerse yourself in one of three spellbinding landscapes:

• The lush Country of the Quadlings
• The icy underworld Land of the Winkies
• The enchanted Land of the Munchkins
• ….and discover an amazing Emerald City!

Over six hours of multi-level play that takes Baum’s original masterpiece into an exciting new dimension!

Supports the National Curriculum for Key Stage 1, and the Scottish 5-14 Curriculum framework.
Develops key skills including:

• Numeracy and problem-solving.
• Recognition of colours, shapes and patterns.
• Concentration and visual memory.
• Creativity and imagination.
• Listening and logic.
• Social and emotional development.
• Computing and ICT coordination.

An enchanting tale that educates and entertains!

This delightful interactive storybook is a wonderful way to motivate children to read. Eighteen beautifully illustrated screens retell the story of Oz, while appealingly animated characters give Baum’s original tale a new twist.

Each screen also contains several hidden animations to keep children interested.
Friendly 3D Oz characters build confidence and encourage children to read.
Children develop ICT and observational skills by working through the screens.

This interactive storybook is designed to give your child the best possible head start in reading.

Educational Benefits:

• Develops early reading
• Comprehensive glossary
• Developed & tested by experts
• Parent’s notes
• Support the National curriculum

Are you: fund raising for charity, celebrating Halloween, Easter or New Year’s Eve, a parent with young kids, joining in a carnival or festival, dressing up, putting on a play, a crèche or child care provider, or simply short of themes for a party? Then why not try out face painting with professional face painters Tactical Magic!

It’s easy to do. You don’t have to be a world-class artist to create roaring lions, scary monsters, cute puppy dogs and beautiful princesses upon demand. Just follow the simple step-by-step guides with help from Tactical Magic and you’ll have the basic face painting skills in an instant.

Scan in your photo, use a digital camera, import from a KODAK Picture CD or use on the models provided to experiment with hundreds of different face paint designs. See your own face transform into the fearsome features of a vampire or a fluffy bunny rabbit at the click of a mouse!

Don’t stop there; finish off your look with wacky Part Wigs, sparkling tiaras from Claire’s Accessories, glitzy eyelashes plus loads of crazy glasses and mad hats. Want to try another look? Then just wipe your screen clear and you’re ready to start again/

Kids will absolutely love Fun and Party Face Painting. Whether they’re playing at make-believe, fancy dress or celebrating their birthday party and having fun with friends, face painting is always a ‘must’! They can be creative, colourful and messy all at once, but don’t worry – all recommended products are water soluble and non-toxic, so it will all come out in the wash.

The first ever platform game with over 500 Maths and English exercises!

Knowledge is power – even for a superhero! That’s what children will discover as they take on the role of Rayman, who must read, count and spell his way through 6 amazing worlds in order to rescue the Magic Book of Knowledge from the hideaway of the evil Mr Dark.

Conforming to the requirements of Key Stage 1 and elements of Key Stage 2, developed with teachers and tested by children, Maths & English with Rayman is a stunning game with seamlessly blended educational activities that children of all pages (and parents!) will love. With 60 gameplay levels, 12 activities, 500 questions and an on screen ‘help’ facility, learning has never been so much fun!

• Zoom around the Art Gallery and find the path to follow by recognising audio and visual phonetic patterns.
• Watch out for the blowing trumpets as you race to find letters to complete words!
• Jump and fly over incredible cakes and identify numbers’ place values.
• Race against the rising tides to help Rayman with alphabetical sequencing.
• Swing on the rings that lead to the words that you hear.
• Watch out for hunters as you swing and jump you way through addition and subtraction exercises.

Laugh as you learn with Rayman:

• Counting Skills
• Comparisons
• Place Values
• Addition and Subtraction
• Number and Word Recognition
• Spelling
• Phonics
• Vocabulary

Parent Guide:
This product will encourage your child to develop

• Hand to Eye Co-ordination
• Logical Reasoning
• Memory Recognition
• Listening Skills
• IT Skills
• Mathematical Skills
• Reading Skills
• Writing Skills

Operating System: Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 Processor: Pentium 400 Hard Drive Space: 30Mb Memory: 32Mb Graphics: 800x600x16bit colour CD-ROM Speed: 4x or faster Audio: Soundblaster or Compatible Printer: Required to print manual

With over 3,500 words ranging in difficulty from easy words such as “dog” through to more challenging words like “onomatopoeia”, Excelling at Spelling is not ideal for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3, but is a fun and educational way to learn for all the family. Choose from five interactive games and learn new words, build up your vocabulary and gain confidence as you progress through the 10 levels of difficulty.

• Contains the UK government’s published Key Stage 3 word list.
• Monitor you progress with the help of the Progress Chart.
  Customise the word list* - add in your own words such as the name of your school, your street or town.
• Use the variety of Assistance Settings to give you clues to help you complete the words.

Learn important spelling skills as you play five games…

SPELLING
Listen to words and try to spell them. Special exercises will be created for misspelt words which will then be periodically presented until spelt correctly.

MINI CROSSWORD
Complete crosswords by solving the spoken and picture clues.

GHASTLY GORILLA
Beat the computer by correctly spelling a word before you run out of attempts.

WORDMAKER
Try to make as many other words as possible out of the letters of the word displayed.

ANAGRAMS
Unscramble the letters to reveal the word.

Parent Guide
This product will encourage you child to develop:

• Hand to eye Co-ordination
• Logical Reasoning
• IT Skills
• Memory Recognition
• Problem Solving
• Listening skills

Help Mole, Ratty, Toad and Badger in a race against time to overcome the wicked weasels!

Winnder of the EMMA award, this fully interactive CD-ROM animates one of the most popular children's books of all time.

Set in the heart of the countryside in true 'Wind in the willows' style, join your favourite characters Toad, Ratty, Mole and Badger and their friends in their plight to overcome the wrath of the wicked stoats and weasels. With over 20 games and three different levels of play, this fully interactive PC CD-ROM will keep even the very young enthralled.

Take a stroll along Toad's gallery where you can click on the paintings to reveal footage from the original animation film; featuring voices of the all- star cast including Rik Mayall as Toad, Michael Palin as Ratty, Alan Bennett as Mole, Michael Gambon as Badger and Vanessa Redgrave as The Storyteller.

Help Toad in his plight to free himself from the dark, dark jail. Experience the suspense as young otter Portly disappears and help the three heroes to succeed in saving Toad Hall before the Weasels eat all the food and burn Toads beloved house to the ground.

With high quality graphics and well-presented visual and audio effects plus verbal instructions for the very young, you can have limitless enjoyment and educational game play for all the family.

• Embark on two nature trails featuring 200 facts about 56 animals narrated bu Johnny Morris.
• Print your own face masks, flicker books, animal biscuit recipes, origami taks, personalised certificates and scenes to colour in ober and over again!
• Suitable for Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 and Key stage 3.

It's a world of fun. It's a world to explore.

The Virtual Adventure you'll never forget.

This is a special world, inhabited by unique virtual life forms known as Norns. Norns are artificial life creatures with their own Digital DNA, brains and biochemistry. They learn and think for themselves, but they need you to love them, care for them and play with them.

The adventure starts from the moment your first Norn hatches in the Nestery! Explore the Creatures Adventures world with them - do you dare to walk through the spooky forest? Or fly through Cload Land in a magical sky boat? In Creatures Adventures the choice is yours.

Norns live on your computer and they need to eat, sleep and play. Keep them fed, give them lots to do, and they'll be your friends for life.
Care for them, explore with them, but most of all love them.
For kids of all ages!